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British Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday she would quit, triggering a contest next month that will bring a new leader to power who is likely to push for a cleaner break with the European Union.

Planning to runBoris Johnson, 54The face of the official campaign to leave the European Union, Johnson resigned as foreign minister in July in protest at May's handling of the exit negotiations.

On Brexit, Johnson said the next British prime minister can also revive stalled talks with the European Union over an exit deal.

Esther McVey, 51The pro-Brexit former television presenter, who resigned as work and pensions minister in November in protest at May's exit deal with the European Union, has said she plans to run.

Educated at the exclusive Eton College, Stewart was first elected to Parliament in 2010 and backed remaining in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.

On Brexit, she said the deal May had negotiated did not deliver a "truly sovereign U.K.," and that she opposed a second Brexit vote.

Dominic Raab, 45Raab quit as May's Brexit minister last year in protest at her draft exit agreement saying it did not match the promises the Conservative Party made in the 2017 election. Raab served only five months as head of the Brexit department.

David Davis, 70Davis, a leading euroskeptic, was appointed Brexit minister to lead negotiations in July 2016 but resigned two years later in protest at May's plans for a long-term relationship with the bloc.